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Can anyone prove that 97 percent of the scientists support Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming

Submitted : 2018-02-13 15:58:06 Popularity:

This should be simple for all you GW zealots!
Update:
Look at Word to the Wise: His article shows that the American Association for the Advancement of Science has supported this claim. However, there is just one problem. It isn't in the Ame

Answers:not to an anti science creationist like you they can't
Nope just because the IPCC published a paper does not mean its fact
Where did you get your degree in Meteorology?
That is not the claim.

What has been repeatedly concluded from several independent studies is that approximately 97% of actively publishing climatologists agree that human activities are warming the planet. That's it. You may not think this is a very powerful result, or that it is obvious that human activities are at least causing some warming (even if not to a catastrophic level).

But something like half of all US adults not only disagree with this personally, but additionally believe that most climatologists do not even agree with this most fundamental, rather benign fact. This reality gap is concerning.

EDIT: You are employing circular logic that is impossible to engage with meaningfully. I can show you studies that examine the published content of scientists, or consensus statements on the subject from pretty much any scientific organization, and you will come back saying these scientists are just biased or on a suspicious payroll. Yet your entire question was ABOUT these scientists, and what their stated positions are, in the first place -- not their supposed motives. Do you really not see how pointless that is? Your whole "gotcha" basically boils down to a position that what scientists say is not relevant to a question about what scientists say. It's childish and boring.

The point about not being able to be published is equally out of bounds. The 97% figure, it is explicitly made clear, is strictly about *actively publishing* climatologists and whether human activities are warming the planet. You are asking for proof of something that doesn't exist: that 97% of all scientists (actively publishing or not, and in any field) support *C*AGW. I'm sure that's not true -- anyone who claims it is true is not being accurate.

EDIT 2: Anyone can only be expected to defend the words that he/she actually made. All of this about who is "inferring" what is not relevant to your discussion with me unless you can point to an example where I stated that 97% of all scientists in the world agree with CAGW. Do that, or find someone else who is more interested in hearing about your personal inferences. And if you would like to correct someone who does claim this, I encourage it, and would be right there with you.

Your conspiracy theories also seem to be painting you into a corner -- if a scientist does not agree with AGW, he/she will not be able to be published, according to you. Well if that's the case then it should be 100%, not 97%, since the 97% figure is and always was, only, referring to *actively publishing* climatologists.

So I'm glad to see you agree with the likely reality of the pure statistic, even if you think the statistic is meaningless due to some kind of collusion or corruption. But of course that question is firmly outside the scope of those studies, which simply sought to quantify what that fraction is. All they are doing is counting, and the results are reproducible by anyone wishing to browse the scientific literature. But as with all scientific studies, they are subject to sensational over-interpretation, and that is wrong.
We could get the world's scientists to complete a questionnaire. Unfortunately the environmental impact of all that paper would cause runaway global warming and we'd all be destroyed. If 100% of the world's scientists told you that anthropogenic global warming was a reality, it still wouldn't stop the USA from destroying the planet. Americans know better than experts - that's why they elected Trump.
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